Task 5 Reading Academic Paper

In this blog i selected one academic paper and i will discuss about this paper and try to compare this with the following questions which are given by our tutor Lars

1. Did the abstract tell you the three things I said it should?
2. What seems to be the research question(s) they were trying to answer ?
3. What methods did they use to answer the question(s)?
4. How credible do you think the paper is? (hint: look at who authors are and where and when it is published also compare what they were asking with what they did)
5. Did you agree, or not, with what they wrote in their conclusion? Why?
6. Briefly describe two things that you learnt from the paper. 
7. In no more than 250 of your own words (i.e. a paraphrase), describe what the paper is about – you could start with “This paper describes……….”

Title -Characterizing residential broadband network

link –

• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Krishna_P_Gummadi/publication/221612015_Characterizing_residential_broadband_networks/links/55b4c5a808ae9289a08a4bf5.pdf

1) – Yes the abstract telling about residential broadband network and author provide a knowledge about measurement of cable and DSL provider in america and Europe and they studied about properties of Broadband network and how residential network works .

2)- in this article they try to solve the questions about delay based congestion and network coordinate system

3) they categorized topics with headings and also using pictures ,flow charts ,line graphs and tables for understanding .in this article they answer the questions related to networking

4) Credibility– according to my point of view it is credible for reading and getting knowledge about Broadband network and their are four authors for this article and it is written in (2007, October) and they used 52 References in their article

5) conclusion -i agree, what they wrote in conclusion because they mention about every thing in this article which they mention in the abstract section and described in detail

6) Learnt – i learnt from this article about how to allocate link bandwidth ? and how link bandwidth react on DSL and cable network .

and i also learnt about what is cable network and what is called DSL network and how its work

7) This paper describe about the broadband networking in Europe and america ,they try to explain about problems which they faced ,definitions ,measurement topology of broadband network .in this article they try to perform some experiments on network like with DSL and cable network and record this data after that they analyse this experiments comparing with each other and gives their own suggestions that which one takes to much time for completing same task and which one is best for particular place .

this is all about broadband networking ,like what is packet latency and what is packet loss and why it happens?

overall ,its good article for networking field students for enhance their knowledge regarding broadband networking .

Reference– Adas, A. (1997). Traffic models in broadband networks. IEEE communications Magazine, 35(7), 82-89.